[Amps] A Crying Shame

[David Harmon]

Several words jump out at me.....

>> an official UPS Store, Inc., and let them box everything up.<<
Not, noway, nohow, never allow those boneheads to allow you in their
place of business.

>>: Bubble wrap, cardboard box, peanuts after that, and another
cardboard box. The finished product had six inches of dense packing
around<<
This stuff should only be used for making noise when you pop the bubbles
and the peanuts to make a mess.

>> including the expert packing.<<
The expert packing was expert only because they said so.

>>"You should have never shipped it anywhere!" Isn't he right?<<

Yep, Rudi's right....partially....surprisingly, a moving company such as
Allied Van Lines will not only pick up the heavy stuff and put it on the
van, you don't have to crate it up either unless you want to. They wrap
heavy blankets around the item and strap it down so it can't bounce
around.
K6AD shipped a big Collins KW-1 from NJ to San Francisco this way with
absolutely no problems. I think he did the same with a Collins 30S-1
also.
Another guy shipped a large and very heavy Gates AM broadcast tx this
way and there was no prob either.
Of course, remove the tubes first, pack properly and toss in the truck
or tape to amp enclosure
The cost of moving heavy items like this is much more reasonable than
you would think.

As far as your cell site work is concerned.....I retired from NORTEL and
it has taken me more than 1 1/2 years to completely get my life back and
stop thinking every few minutes that I need to be somewhere other than
where I am (home).
I made the mistake of letting NORTEL concerns get in the way of what I
needed to do in my personal life a couple of times and I paid list price
for my stupidity.
I'll bet you won't do that again.....
I spent 42 years in the Telecommunication industry and I am
cooked...toasted...done....
I know exactly how you feel and what you are going through.....my
sympathy.


Regards

Dave Harmon
NSRCA 586
K6XYZ[at]comcast[dot]net
Torrance, Ca.

-----Original Message-----
From: amps-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:amps-bounces at contesting.com]
On Behalf Of ka1xo at juno.com
Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 11:17 PM
To: amps at contesting.com
Subject: [Amps] A Crying Shame


Yes, that's right. Shame. Shame on us. We Americans have come up with so
many fine ideas and products, such as televisions, FM commercial radio
and unionism, only to have them taken from us because it's not
economically feasible to manufacture, and the cost of labor is too
prohibitive, it seems, for anyone to do anything.

Within one month another one-of-a-kind amplifier has been trashed in
shipping. This time it was UPS. What makes it unforgiveable is that the
shipper and receiver both contacted UPS on advice as to how to ensure
safety.  We were told to go to an official UPS Store, Inc., and let them
box everything up.

The shipper photographed the heck out of the unit before it went. A-1
condition throughout.  The shipper photographed the packing process:
Bubble wrap, cardboard box, peanuts after that, and another cardboard
box. The finished product had six inches of dense packing around all six
sides, and the box was stapled then taped on all edges. Twelve "Fragile"
stickers. Arrows. Big letters: "Do Not Drop: Glass."

UPS bounced the transformer crate so bad it bent the mounting irons so
the tranny looks like the leaning tower of Pisa.

UPS bounced the amp chassis box so bad it ripped the blower motor start
cap right out of its can on the rear RF deck wall, and dislodged the
500pF ceramic vacuum variable from its clamped mountings. 

Worst, the bounce was on the rear lower right corner. How do I know? The
extruded aluminum lower right rail has a nice bend where it took the
fall.

It seems now that it would have been worth it to take 3 days off the
busiest cell project on the face of the earth, where 40 or 50
contractors are charging $2K a night, per site, each, and just thumb my
nose and drive off to Georgia. But no. My manager asked me to stay on
duty these nights because we're starting to install the first of nine
thousand, 180Watt power amplifiers and there's no other English-speaking
RF engineer who can supervise construction at night.

So Terry Jones and I mull it over and over. He knows what happened to my
beautiful one-week-old EMTRON DX-3. Rudi calls me from Australia just to
yell at me every now and then: "You should have never shipped it
anywhere!" Isn't he right?

It cost hundreds of dollars to send it UPS 2-day from GA to NJ,
including the expert packing. 

I wonder how many times the bozos in UPS tried dropping it to hear the
tinkle inside?

Sonsabitches!

Well. That feels better.

Hope you all have a real nice day.

Fraternally,

Hal
KA1XO 
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